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At the 2024 ESTS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning interviewed some of the most knowledgeable thoracic surgeons from around the world to highlight the fascinating wor
May 19, 2016
In an interview filmed at the Cambridge VATS Symposium, Joel Dunning talks with Tom D’Amico, Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Duke University and a pioneer in the field of VATS lobectomy.
May 16, 2016
A uniportal VATS posterior approach with a 4 cm single incision was used to treat a 57-year-old patient with metachronous single metastases in the left lower lobe.
May 13, 2016
Walter Kleptko of Vienna Medical University, Vienna, Austria, gives an exciting talk on the current state and future of lung transplantation.
May 10, 2016
This video demonstrates a robotic lobectomy through a subxiphoid approach.
May 4, 2016
Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz of Nouvel Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France, discusses the use of ECMO in thoracic surgery.
May 3, 2016
The authors report on the surgical approach and technique for using the da Vinci Xi and robotic stapler in three different general thoracic cases.
April 26, 2016
This video demonstrates a radical resection of a Pancoast tumor through a VATS hybrid approach.
April 21, 2016
David Waller of Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, discusses the current options available for the surgical treatment of emphysema, and why he favors lung volume reduction surgery.
April 19, 2016
In this video, the authors review the evolution of surgical myotomy and the innovations that have improved patient outcomes in achalasia.
April 13, 2016
A group of experts met at the 2016 SCTS Annual Meeting, in Birmingham, United Kingdom, to discuss the adoption, efficacy, and future of VATS lobectomy.